March 2007

Banned in 1933 as too dangerous, wing walking is back – with a few health and safety inspired modifications. “I have a dance background, and to me wingwalking is dancing in the sky” says one pa… Continue Reading

‘His [Alistair Marriott] new work, Children of Adam, draws on the 19th-century writing of Walt Whitman, particularly the Calamus poems (‘We two boys together clinging’), expressing a young man’s grief at the death of his male lover.’

‘Sinfonietta Giocosa/ A Million Kisses to my Skin/ Melody on the Move’ 6 March 2007 This programme features recent work from three established British (and Royal Ballet-trained) choreographers, none … Continue Reading

“Faultline, is one of the most accomplished we’ve seen from her [Jeyasingh] in a long time, almost as if she’s responding vigorously to the younger generation of like-minded choreographers now nipping at her heels.”

“Wayward details lend a hot, giddy urgency to the dancing, a luxuriant tug of rubato seems to open up glimpses of the dancers’ interior lives. With a cast of just nine, Dawson fills the stage with mysteriously shifting shapes that splinter, echo and reform…